On the Structure and Preference of India's Strategic Culture
SUI Xin-min
Abstract：India's strategic culture originates in two sets of correlative concepts and ideas.One is a group of religious beliefs based mainly on both Vedic culture and Hinduism, the other political philosophy born of secular activities and geo-political evolution.The former endows India's strategic culture with spirituality and mysticism, and the latter with pragmatism and instrumental significance.Therefore beliefs at both philosophical and instrumental levels overlay, and consequently shape a multifaceted and tridimensional structure of India's strategic culture.Concerning its preference, neither defensiveness or offensiveness can depict it exactly.India's strategic culture is, in effect, a hybrid of both defensiveness and offensiveness.There is a strong correlation between India's strategic culture and India's strategy decision making and security behavior.The former limits and guides the latter by supplying social-cultural field.
Keywords：Indiastrategic culturenonalignment
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：9( 46-53,96 )